Census Data

Birmingham: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000025

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Key Facts

All Residents 1,144,919
Male 560,423
Female 584,496
Households 423,456
Population Density (people/km2) 4,275.4
Table Codets031
Issued2022-11-29
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options58

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by religion. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

The religion people connect or identify with (their religious affiliation), whether or not they practice or have belief in it.

This question was voluntary and the variable includes people who answered the question, including ‘No Religion’, alongside those who chose not to answer this question.

This variable classifies responses into the eight tick-box response options. Write-in responses are classified by their "parent" religious affiliation, including "No Religion", where applicable.

Religion (detailed): Total: All Usual Residents 1,144,912
Christian 389,406
Buddhist 4,340
Hindu 21,997
Jewish 1,687
Muslim 341,811
Sikh 33,126
No religion 276,327
No religion: Agnostic 421
No religion: Atheist 185
No religion: Free Thinker 6
No religion: Humanist 100
No religion: No religion 275,614
No religion: Realist 1
Other religion 6,362
Other religion: Alevi 12
Other religion: Animism 11
Other religion: Baha'i 93
Other religion: Believe in God 67
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 5
Other religion: Chinese Religion 0
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 1
Other religion: Deist 16
Other religion: Druid 21
Other religion: Druze 0
Other religion: Eckankar 3
Other religion: Heathen 50
Other religion: Jain 185
Other religion: Mixed Religion 244
Other religion: Mysticism 2
Other religion: Native American Church 1
Other religion: New Age 3
Other religion: Occult 6
Other religion: Other religions 1,227
Other religion: Own Belief System 49
Other religion: Pagan 923
Other religion: Pantheism 34
Other religion: Rastafarian 418
Other religion: Ravidassia 1,522
Other religion: Reconstructionist 24
Other religion: Satanism 75
Other religion: Scientology 43
Other religion: Shamanism 20
Other religion: Shintoism 9
Other religion: Spiritual 464
Other religion: Spiritualist 341
Other religion: Taoist 56
Other religion: Theism 12
Other religion: Thelemite 4
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 17
Other religion: Unification Church 6
Other religion: Universalist 5
Other religion: Valmiki 121
Other religion: Vodun 5
Other religion: Wicca 163
Other religion: Witchcraft 12
Other religion: Yazidi 20
Other religion: Zoroastrian 72
Religion not stated 69,856

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